On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 5:37 PM Cyrus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello!,
>
> I'm toying with some usecases I would like to see in Guacamole:
>
> 1. SPICE support, might enable a basic VDI usecase

I started into this once upon a time and haven't had much time to get
back to it. It was mostly working, but probably need some major
re-tooling after the Guacamole rendering engine underwent some major
changes in 1.6.0.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-261

> 2. IPMI SOL support, ability to set  remote serial console to server
> fleet from within Guacamole, my preferred access when everything goes
> wrong. Power management would be a nice addition.

Yeah, this would probably be a good addition, and probably not
terribly complicated to implement. Feel free to enter a Jira ticket
for it (you'll need to request an account if you don't already have
one).

> 3. Guacamole CLI client: I would like to be able to access remote
> servers using CLI but proxying through guacamole-client endpoints
> (with RBAC, accounting, etc)

I think I understand what you mean, here, and I think the biggest
issue with doing this is that the nature of the Guacamole protocol is
that anything on the remote side is converted to an image and sent to
the browser. If you were wanting to implement a command-line client
that uses Guacamole Client to control access to connections proxied
through guacd you would have to either add functionality to guacd that
would allow for sending plain text back over to the client so that the
command line client could interpret that, or the command line client
would have to be capable of rendering those images.

>
> I was thinking that maybe Redfish is a better approach than #2, still
> not researched. Actual GUI is most probably non-standard and vendor
> specific to the BMC implementation (iDRAC vs iLO vs XClarity).

Redfish may be a good addition to IPMI SOL - it is the standard, but
there's plenty of stuff out there that doesn't support it - either
older stuff, or the "express" editions of many of the on-board
management controllers.

>
> Are those of any interest?, looking for hints on what to prioritize.

I think all of them are interesting, with #1 being somewhat in
progress (though sorely neglected) and #3 being the most challenging.

-Nick

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